Quote from: toknormal on April 14, 2016, 11:34:54 AM

Quote from: stan.distortion on April 14, 2016, 11:16:10 AM

I've seen at least 10 posters take a new interest since Tao started on his campaign and that could already equate to a thousand or more taking a silent interest. The only message Dash needs to get across is "there's some genuine innovation going on here, take a look and see what you think", only a very simple message but the trolls have been very successful at silencing it and that has to stop.

Ok. Can't argue with "field data".

I apologise to Tao if I came across as undermining his efforts which are always made in good faith. It's just that I've never personally felt their attacks very substantive and am keen to develop 'real' economic use-cases for Dash. (As opposed to speculative ones).

Quote from: stan.distortion on April 14, 2016, 11:16:10 AM

Btw Tok, a bit OT, this was linked in something else that was linked here and reading it was a real eye opener:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/08/what-is-debt-%E2%80%93-an-interview-with-economic-anthropologist-david-graeber.html

Cheers - looks interesting. Will have a read.

It's an interesting one and since posting it a few times I'm seeing "moral economy" popping up all over the place but I think that's in response to China's plans for what's being termed as a credit rating system as some reports I've read on it strongly suggest that's the aim.

Sorry if I came across as confrontational anywhere there, that wasn't at all the intention. I had the whole altcoin section disabled here at one stage because it was pure spam, hundreds of threads with more every day and you could spend days trawling through them and find absolutely nothing of interest. It's not quite so bad now but that's still what we're up against, if an alt doesn't get a good impression across in the first few views then it's lost its chance and while Dash has been around long enough to deserve extra attention that first impression is still the most important one.

Something underused imho, the internet causes all sorts of clashes of culture and you only need to take a glance at the discussions to see that happening here, Dash is taking the "build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door" route while others are taking the "crush any competing mousetrap" route. I guess that's just common business practice and the kind of thing shareholders see as a good sign but are crypto users shareholders? Personally I've always been disgusted by the relationship but I guess that's the way many see it, imho that's appealing to a very specific demographic and if digital cash targets a specific demographic at the cost of another then it's failed.

Fwiw the trolling doesn't bother me over much, Dash is right at the front in the tech race with no signs of slowing down and it's unlikely more than a small handful have a chance of keeping up with the pace. The foundations and userbase are extremely solid and the longer the trolls keep up their campaign the stronger that userbase will be, it'll grow regardless and imho growing with a small but strong following is better that attracting the masses but v0.12.1 could be a turning point for that view.